Scoop-board.



Patented nul ns, IQOL F. A. MATSUN.

SCUUP BDARD (Application filed mar. 22, 1800.)

(No Model.)

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FRANK A. MATSON, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

SCOOP -BOARD.

C A ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,578, dated July 16, 1901. Application filed March 22, 1900; Serial No. 9,73 7. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. MA'ISON, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain useful Improvements in Scoop-Boards; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to a new and novel improvement in scoop-boards.

The object of my invention is to provide'a scoop-board so arranged that the same may be readily removed from or attached to the wagon-body, the same being further arranged so that the scoop-board may be closed and at the same be raised to permit small grain or other loads to escape out of the wagon-box through the rear end, which will be described more fully hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a broken view of a wagon-box provided with my improved end-gate, showing the endgate as closed. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation disclosing the end-gate as open, while Fig. 3 shows a broken detail disclosing one of the ad justably-held keepers as used in my invention.

My invention embodies, essentially, two keepers adapted to be adj ustably secured to the wagonbox, and these keepers in turn are secured to the scoop-board by means of two supporting latching-bars, as will be more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, figures 1 and 2 represent the sides of an ordinary wagonbox, while :1; represents the bottom thereof. These sides 1 and 2 are provided at the rear with two ordinary reinforcing-cleats 15 and 16, as is usual inwagon construction to form a groove 2, as is shown in Fig. 2, within which may be removably held one or more boards, serving the purpose of an end-gate. In my invention, however, I provide an ordinary wooden bar 17 within the groove 2, and to this bar is secured a piece of angle-iron 18, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3. This angle-iron 18 above is provided with a slot 20 and below with an approximately-curved incision 19,

forming a seating. Secured to the angle-iron 18 is a projecting car 14, having aperforated extension 10, and these bars 17 and angleiron 18 form keepers by means of which the scoop-board 3 is secured to the wagon-box. These keepers are used in sets of two, there being one upon each side.

The scoop-board may be of any suitable construction, and, as shown, comprises the main portion 3, having the sides a, and, further, being provided with the reinforcing-strips 6, S, and 5. Extending through the reinforcingstrips 5 is an opening 1 1,'(shown in Fig. 2,) so that the ear 14: may extend through these reinforcing-strips.

It will be noticed that the end-gate proper really comprises three sections upon the rear, the central section 3 and the two adjacent reinforcing-strips 5, these strips 5 being placed upon the main portions 3, so that I provide the two grooves y, within which grooves are held the end cleats 16 and the portion of the angle-iron 18, as will be understood in referring to Figs. 1 and 3. Each one of the reinforcing-strips 5 is next provided upon the outside with a preferably metallic washer 7, through the opening of which extends the ear extension 10, as shown. These washers are secured by means of suitable screws 9. The lower reinforcing strip or sill 8, secured to the end gate, is next provided with two springears 12, forming latches under which the supporting locking-bars 11 are held, which bars are movably secured to the ear extension 10, as shown, and below are provided with the handholds 13, so that the bars 11 would not be carried through these Washers 7 after they have once been placed thereon. Below, the rear end-gate portion 3 upon opposite sides is provided with a simple projecting pin. (Shown in dotted linesat 19 in Figs. 1 and 2.) These pins extend outward but a very short distance and are simply intended-to find a seating within the curved slot 19 of the keeper-section 18, so that the end-gate will be locked to the keepers below as long as the pins are within the slots 19 and above by means of the locking-bars 11 when these bars are latched, as is shown in Fig. 1. In order to secure these keepers to the wagon-box, I provide the rear cleats 16 at suitable points adjacent to the slots 20 with an ordinary bolt 21, adapted to receive a nut, so that these keepers may be bolted into their slideways. Should a wagon-box provided with one of my improved scoop-boards be loaded with small grain or other material which it were desired to speedily empty, it would simply be necessary to unscrew the nuts sufliciently so that the keepers could be raised, which movement would be permitted because of the elongated slot 20, so that an opening would be provided out of which the material would fall. The scoop-board would be locked in an open position by means of the bolts 21. Now should it be desired to remove this scoopboard entirely the bolts 21 may be removed while the keepers are locked to the scoopboard, so that the scoop-board may be drawn upward and disconnected. Should it seem to be desired to use the same as a shovelingboard, the bars 11 are unlatched to allow the end-gate to tip backward, as is shown in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

The combination with a wagon-body pro-' vided with the usual cleats to form suitable grooves,of two counterpart barsworkingwithin said grooves, a plate secured to each of said bars, said plates above being provided with slots, and below with incisions extending from one edge, forming suitable seatings, a perforated ear intermediate of said slot and seating, said bars, plates and ears forming suitable keepers, bolts passing through said slots so that said plates are adjustably secured to the wagon-box, of a scoop-board, openings within said scoop-board through which said perforated ears project, projecting pins secured to the lower end of said end-gate upon opposite sides, said pins being so positioned that they work into said lower seating-forming incisions, and locking-bars detachably secured, to said perforated ears, and being adapted to work through said end-gate openings, as and for the purpose set forth.

FRANK A. MATSON,

In presence of- CLEMENT F; PATTERSON, RAYMOND J. DAVENPORT. 

